So I'm reading this fascinating book by Professor Harold Foster, what really causes AIDS.

I thought it was fascinating because it involves nutrition. Let me explain. When you have this virus HIV,

where it stands for human immunodeficiency virus, over time, if the immune system is weak,

that can shift to AIDS, which stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Now AIDS is a condition

where you basically don't have an immune system anymore because that virus targets a key player

within your immune system. It's like the quarterback of the entire teen. I mean, if you're playing

football and you don't have a good quarterback, you can't ever win. You can't even do a play. The

quarterback is kind of an essential key player in this whole thing. Well, as far as your immune system,

the tea helper cell is called CD4 is that quarterback. Without that key player, the tea helper cell

your immune system cannot coordinate with the other players and launch the attacks, the defense

systems. It can't provide for any protection. And so this tea helper cell is such a vital

essential player involved in your immune system. And without it, you'll have all sorts of

pathogenic secondary infections, tumors, cancer that can result from not having that

key player. And on top of that, the virus can then keep reproducing, reproducing, reproducing,

and just forever. A lot of different viruses have very clever strategies for their survival,

which is pretty bizarre because a virus technically is not alive. It's some genetic material

wrapped in a sack that can only live off the host's energy and metabolism and machinery.

So it's a big mystery whether it's alive or not. But the point is that HIV can encode

for glutathione. It has the exact same gene that you have when you make glutathione. And so glutathione

is the key antioxidant for all of your cells. It's like the most important antioxidant,

but it's also intimately involved with your immune system. And so this is what this virus does.

It starts making glutathione. And in the process, it depletes your selenium

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